Thank you Jim and others for such helpful information.
I bought OpenOffice from OfficeBestDeal.com. If they aren't supposed to be
selling it, then maybe I can get my money back?
I will do some research on the FTP client and NVU, which sound like my best
options. Jim, you said "All you
need are files in some form of HTML which you place on a web server with a
URL. It is that simple." I've converted my pages to HTML, but that little
phrase "which you place" is what I can't make happen yet. Hopefully with
the ideas presented here, I can move my HTML pages to my website. That'll
be a happy day!
Aderet
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From: "Jim Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:05 AM
Subject: [users] Re: Writer: Publishing to website
Aderet White wrote:
I have windows xp but I haven't been able to publish web pages to my
website because I had Frontpage 2000 and I was told I needed at least
Frontpage 2003. It cost a fortune to upgrade my frontpage so as I surfed
the internet for other options I found openoffice. I didn't see anything
comparable to Frontpage in it, so I wrote and asked if something like
Frontpage was in the OpenOffice package. I was told it was included in
Writer. So I bought it but still can't find a way to upload my webpages
to my website in writer.
So in answer to your question as to how I normally publish my webpages to
my website, I send them to someone else who does it for me. I'm so
hoping you can tell me I can do it myself :)
First, OpenOffice.org is free (as in free source and no cost when
downloaded) so you should not have had to buy it, unless don't normally
have access to the web and so had to obtain a CD with OpenOffice.org on
it. But since you "searched the internet", that does not seem to be the
case. You can download the newest version of OpenOffice.org at
http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html
You don't need Frontpage to publish ANY web pages, unless the person you
use to publish your pages is too ignorant to use anything else. All you
need are files in some form of HTML which you place on a web server with a
URL. It is that simple. There are a number of companies offering free web
space such a Geocities and Google Page Creator along with many others.
While you can use the HTML facilities in OpenOffice.org (or the HTML
facilities in MS Word for that matter) the HTML used in either is not very
good. OpenOffice.org HTML is only a subset of HTML-3 with no cascading
style-sheets while MS Windows HTML is loaded with bulky comments intended
to allow everything to retained when loaded back into Word, but these
comments are useless for web publishing.
However if you do want to use OpenOffice.org as an HTML editor, then open
OpenOffice.org Writer and select File -> New -> HTML document. You can
create your web in here just as you would a word processing document and
save it in ".HTML" format. Use the View menu to turn HTML Source view on
or off and edit in either mode. That HTML file should be suitable for web
publishing if you are not at all fussing about recent advances in HTML,
XHTML, and XML>
But as already mentioned, you can also use NVU (at
http://www.nvu.com/index.php ) to produce web pages instead. NVU is a
dedicated web page editor and producer and so, in my opinion, better than
OpenOffice.org for this.
If you are using Windows, a more powerful free (as in no-cost) HTML/XML
editor is Microsoft Visual Web Developer at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa974185.aspx and
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700797.aspx I've used this to
develop a professional corporate website.
Another excellent free (as in no cost) product is Matrix Y2K Website
Studio at http://www.crystalfibers.com/index.php?topicid=146 I haven't
used much at all much as I'd already gotten used to NVU and Miscrosoft
Visual Web Developer but it seems to be very good.
Don't let anyone talk you into buying any Website creation product unless
you know that product has a feature you really need. There's sufficient
free material on the web for most web page creation. Why does someone
claim you now NEED FrontPage 2003?
The only thing probably worth buying is a good book on HTML for reference.
Jallan
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